Facebook and Twitter Integration

Today we are releasing some social network integrations that will allow you to easily share your accomplishments with your friends and family.

From the "Tools" menu, you will see a new option called "Social Networks". From here you can setup a link between Toodledo and Facebook and/or Twitter. Once you have established the connection, you can now tweet or "facebook" your accomplishments from Toodledo. To do this, click on the action icon for a task and select "Tweet" or "Update Facebook Status". You will then be given the opportunity to customize your message and post it.

The Twitter integration has some bonus features. You can add and fetch tasks via Twitter and receive alarms for tasks due soon. This functionality exited prior to today's announcement, but the setup process has been streamlined and made more reliable now.

We now have an official Facebook page for Toodledo ( https://www.facebook.com/Toodledo ) where we will be posting these announcements in the future as well as other tips and special promotions. Please take a moment to visit our Facebook page and "Like" it, if you are so inclined. We also have a Twitter page where we will be doing the same thing: https://twitter.com/#!/toodledo

you say "(...) where we will be posting these announcements in the future as well as other tips and special promotions"; as I do not use Facebook nor Twitter, I wonder if this section "Help - Blog / News" anyway, will remain where it is today, or at least can be read in the future without the user having Face / Twitter. I believe the correct thing is to keep copy of these news on all platforms, not to restrict access to users who do not want to use Face / Twitter. Keep up the good work.

I'm showing my age again. I can't imagine any of my family or friends wanting to be kept up to date every time I plan a meeting or make a correction to the project website. I guess young people think this is utterly thrilling! Thank God none of my sons are of that ilk.

News updates will continue to go here in these forums as well as facebook and twitter. There are just extra avenues now.

Facebook and Twitter announcements are optional. You don't have to tweet every meeting, but you may want to tweet your big accomplishments. Its up to you.

Sometimes we work on things that are not requested because people don't always know what is possible. This was short 3 day project that was fun and we thought it would be a nice addition that could bring some awareness to Toodledo.

I'm showing my age again. I can't imagine any of my family or friends wanting to be kept up to date every time I plan a meeting or make a correction to the project website. I guess young people think this is utterly thrilling! Thank God none of my sons are of that ilk.

Just curious. This is an oft requested "feature"?

I assumed that this was one of those things that was considered "interesting" and that's why it was done. As opposed to something that users wanted and/or asked for, like being able to change the completed date. With scarce development resources this might antagonise some users but it's a free world and there are alternatives.

I can't ever imagine updating my Facebook or Twitter feed when I've completed a task. I'd do it when I've achieved a goal but I'd probably take the time to post it manually to give some consideration to what I said, add some photos, etc. So a link from here to FB or Twitter isn't something I'd ever use.

I can just imagine my friends response if I tweeted that my weekly financial reports were complete. Every Friday. Zzzzzzzz.... :)

I am sorry if this isn't something that some of you will use. Nobody is making you use it, and if you dont set it up, it won't be displayed on your action menu, so you can just pretend this never happened.

I am launching a website soon and I have created a Facebook page to go with the site, I am using toodledo as a bug list/request list and would like the updates to goto the Facebook page rather than my profile.

I myself am not real comfortable with Facebook and have seen so many meaningless twits (?) I have trouble sometimes understanding the utility -- BUT hey let's not beat up on our developer for a proactive, creative sidetrip that IS going to end up being 'just the thing' for some of us -- part of the beauty of the Toodledo approach, I think.

Developer people, really, I am so happy to have gotten my Samsung Galaxy Tablet (mine going by 'Ralph') when they first came out, if only!! because that led me to trying out apps (something I would never have anticipated earlier) and ultimately brought me to your SPLENDID service in part because your approach 'matched' mine for organizing etc (or ok, sometimes 'exceeded'), AND yours linked to some quite good apps AND because you think about things and keep us doing so as well. :"} Arlene

I use GMail for work and personal mail.
I use Toodledo for work and personal tasks.
I follow MYN principles to manage GMails and Tasks.

I am looking for a simple "one click" way to create a task from a GMail that puts the title of the GMail as the subject of the task and the url of the GMail thread in the note of the task.
In this way I will have the task in Toodledo with easy access to the GMail thread, so I can see any replies to the GMail.

I dont believe that the way I use GMail and Toodledo together to manage my work/life is rare or indeed unique.

A similar type of integration (but not exactly as I describe) between GMail and Tasks is available with other Task Management systems (RTM for one) so I know it can be done.
There are also XML scripts floating around that provide similar functionality.

However, in my opinion Toodledo is far and away the best Task Management system available (especially with its integration with MYN principles) and integration with GMail (for people who use GMail/Toodledo to manage their work/personal life) would make it perfect.

Regards how useful it would be, all I can say is that GMail is growing all the time so the potential audience is expanding rapidly.

Also, I don't see many replies to this thread saying how useful the Facebook/Twitter integration is, in fact the replies appear to say the opposite.

I hope this explains my reasons for posting.

You feel that this feature would "probably not be very useful to a lot of people", I think it would be extremely useful to all GMail/Toodledo users (a base that is growing day by day) and I am sure it would become a strong USP for Toodledo.

But as I said at the beginning, your are entitled to your opinion, but so am I.